Have you noticed fuel prices going up

[JohnV6]

That is stratospheric pricing

 

[T1 Terry]

Just been past this place on the way home.

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That standard diesel price = $3.66AUD, if the hadn't halved the fuel excise, cutting 65c per litr off the price, we would be paying $3.85AUD per ltr
Unleaded petrol = $3.12ltr, add the excise cut and that would be $3.15AUD

We have a lot more kms to cover between places

T1 Terry

 

[Everest]

Just been past this place on the way home.

That is stratospheric pricing

Then someone should click on the "Report Prices" button to complain

 

[Rolfe]

Plenty like it around here.

 

[salty]

Then someone should click on the "Report Prices" button to complain

Won't be any of us.

 

[T1 Terry]

Then someone should click on the "Report Prices" button to complain

I tried, but it just brought up the same image in another screen ......

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

I think the world should be preparing for the fact oil will never be the available commodity it once was and start to look for alternative ways to make the oil byproducts in a financially viable way.

Maybe plastic will no longer be a cheap throw away product, I see filtering of ocean water to collect the microplastics is no longer a humanitarian project relying purely on donated funds and moving towards self-sustaining and possibly profitable in the future.
All that plastic collected in recycling that was no longer bought by China, might again become a valuable commodity ..... can you picture future rubbish tip mining to collect the value of what was thrown away as worthless?

The sooner the world in general, moves away from oil dependency, the sooner things will return to some sort of balance ..... but it will never return to the way it was a month or so back, far worse than when the OPEC countries realised just how much the world was willing to pay for what they had ..... This will not just be about how much anyone is willing to pay, and more about it no longer being available the way it once was .....

T1 Terry

 

[EvTek23]

Since my last report of the expensive petrol and diesel in Marlow on 22 March when it was £1.589 for petrol and £1.879 for diesel. I can now report that petrol is £1.619 and £1.999 for diesel.
I'm wondering whether their pumps and signage will display more then this, or whether it will have to change to something like 99.95p / 1/2 L......?

 

[MG Clive]

I should think it'll jump up further in the next few days.

 

[Rolfe]

Well, I'm going to have to get some more heating oil within the next couple of weeks whether I like it or not.

 

[Alb]

It would help if you could buy less than 500 litres.

 

[Archev]

I should think it'll jump up further in the next few days.

I just threw caution to the slight breeze and drove to Callander this afternoon for coffee. I thought whilst I was there I’d check out Tesco for something to cook with some veggies for dinner. The Berlingo was at 47% last night and 88% when I set off. Lovely uneventful trip and superb coffee and fruit scone in the upstairs Atrium cafe. Tesco produced a couple of chicken breasts, one of which met up with the veggies to provide dinner:-

I was £1.28 I think last night for the charge and the car is sitting out there at 55% with a fresh coat of mud / slurry donated (foc) from a farmer’s tractor and spreader which needed about three miles of twisty road to finally overtake.
What I was aware of on that sixty odd mile journey was a total lack of broken down EVs and four ICE cars languishing at the side of the motorway sections forlornly flashing their hazards. I really commiserated on their plight.

 

[Archev]

Well, I'm going to have to get some more heating oil within the next couple of weeks whether I like it or not.

Ouch.

 

[Shrink Proof]

Well, I'm going to have to get some more heating oil within the next couple of weeks whether I like it or not.

You may pay a lot but at least you'll still end up with some heating oil. Whereas if you were a US taxpayer, the stable genius in what's left of the White House has just come up with a strategy where you'd now be paying your government to do the thing it says it wants Iran to stop doing...

 

[Rolfe]

Oh dear. Well at least I've got a lot of cheap electricity.

 

[GaryMG4]

It would help if you could buy less than 500 litres.

I asked that question and was told that it was a trading standards condition, so I had to pay £1.18 a litre!

 

[T1 Terry]

Oh dear. Well at least I've got a lot of cheap electricity.

Might need to write another book just to keep warm

T1 Terry

 

[Rolfe]

I asked that question and was told that it was a trading standards condition, so I had to pay £1.18 a litre!

My lot wanted £1.50 a litre. I told them to get knotted politely cancelled the order. I was intending to switch suppliers anyway.

 

[Coulomb]

Whereas if you were a US taxpayer, the stable genius in what's left of the White House has just come up with a strategy where you'll now be paying your government to do the thing it says it wants Iran to stop doing...

That's very stable genius to you

To be fair, what's left of the White House has clarified that only ships to and from Iranian ports (such ships of any and all countries) will be blockaded. Though Iran is still a fairly major oil producer, so that will have an effect on global oil supplies...

As far as I know, Iranian oil is still unembargoed, so if the Iranians whip up a garden hose for emergency oil transfer, they can still sell a few barrels of oil per day to any neighbours (depending on the length of the hose, of course).

Edit: However, you are still right: the US taxpayers are still paying their government to do the thing it wants Iran to stop doing, just that the condition is pretty much flipped (instead of mostly Iranian ships allowed, it's now Iranian ships not allowed).

Edit 2: I see that the Iranian oil temporary sanction lift expires around 19th April, in a few days time as I type.

 

[GaryMG4]

My lot wanted £1.50 a litre. I told them to get knotted politely cancelled the order. I was intending to switch suppliers anyway.

I usually order through the oil club, they get the 'best price', normally one of three local suppliers. Occasionally I'll try to get a quote from local suppliers on most occasions it is slightly more than the oil club.